The Mystery of the Missing Hour | |
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Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
Series | Sapphire & Steel |
Release no. | 2.6 |
Written by | Joseph Lidster |
Directed by | Nigel Fairs |
Produced by | Jason Haigh-Ellery Nigel Fairs |
Length | 120 mins |
The Mystery of the Missing Hour is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the popular British science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel .
Sapphire and Steel arrive in Cairo, 1926 to solve an impossible murder...
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